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James Allen's Girls' School allows students to wear gender-neutral uniforms

I try not to say ‘girls’ but when you have been teaching for 20 years it is very hard not to say ‘girls'

Sally-Anne Haung

Her stance at the school, in Dulwich, south-east London, is the latest in a debate on the treatment of transgender children.

More than 150 schools across the country have adopted “gender neutral” uniforms to be more “inclusive” and The Good Schools Guide recently began rating them on how “transgender-friendly” they are.

Bernadette John, director of the guide’s education consulting service, said last week: “Families are coming to us when they feel they are left with no option but to pull their transgender child out of a school.

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“Sometimes the child is being bullied and the school is not dealing with it appropriately.

“We also hear that schools are causing transgender children undue stress and anxiety by refusing to allow them to use the name or pronoun they prefer, or to wear the uniform and use facilities for the gender they identify with.”

James Allen’s – established by a 18th century educationalist – allows students to wear trousers, cut their hair short and be called boys’ names if they prefer.